POB Siege Balance

[Binski]

I had and still have pobs. Few of them were sieged but we managed to defend it without whining about "reee, make battleships destructible" or "reee, add rules to protect pobs from any siege". Maybe the problem is not sieges but pobs plugin itself? The only good thought came from LaWey in one of your 100500 threads, full of tears.

This is my 1st POB thread, it's flooding with bile, not tears.
The suggestion is to force attackers to use POBs, making them vulnerable to the very treatment they offer. Making it more similar to regular PvP.
To kill a ship, you need a ship. To kill a base, you need a base. Simple as that.

I dont mind that suggestion at all. It is easy for a faction to just capship up and go sieging. On an RP server, if they really cared, they'd wouldn't mind? So you can build a fleet but to go on the offensive against POB's, you have to have your own POB. That way both sides have need to defend something, and to maintain the ability to fully function. But, most players would say its not worth it to play anymore if they have to do all that just go go sieging. That would separate the hardcore RP'ers from the those just here for pvp.

OR at the same time, in the same way...

Each faction could be given mortal solars like capships that would be like POB's. Instead of needing to have or run a POB to make sieges, designate an existing NPC base. So perhaps for a faction to siege they should have one command base or a shipyard be made siegeable, and if they lost that base, either lose the right to siege, or lose the base and the ships available to it.

Remember folks, this all goes on because factions don't need to prioritize on military targets. Enclave should have to siege BAF capship bases that should be NEXT TO the Dublin jumphole, making them at least need to fight to get that open, or rely on cloaks or jumpships (which is a perk of the investment). In Aquintaine, you'd assume you'd seen Enclave cruisers at least on thier side by the jumphole, and battleships up by Issoudun. Imagine if they were all also siegeable?

But then people will ask, whats fair to decide how often ship bases get replaced after being taken out of play? Almost like a system would be good to determine how fast new ships get sent from the shipyard to the battle zone. I worked out such a system last year as a Faction Battle System.

The entire time, siegeable static caps in 24/7, not just events, would have changed everything. They could keep the pvp priority away from POB's in many cases, and be used to keep activity going, propel story between major events.